A University of Michigan Professor Exposes the Full Implications of Academic Boycotts of Israel
Neglecting students and supporting terrorism.
September 26, 2018
Understanding Zionism’s Past, and Its Future
The Zionist Ideas and Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.
In 1959, the American rabbi and historian Arthur Hertzberg published The Zionist Idea, an anthology of major essays in Zionist thought spanning an era from before Theodor Herzl through the founding of the state of Israel. The book has been an invaluable resource for students and teachers for decades, but it is not without its flaws. In welcoming Gil Troy’s The Zionist Ideas (plural), meant to be a revised and updated version of Hertzberg’s work, Allan Arkush finds it has its own virtues and drawbacks:
September 26, 2018
How Israel’s Arabs Supported Their Country during the Yom Kippur War
“Arab Israelis appreciate that the Jews have sent their children to war.”
Understanding Zionism’s Past, and Its Future
The Zionist Ideas and Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.
Atheism Lay at the Core of Soviet Ideology, and Helps Explain Its Moral Monstrosity
Among the unbelievers.
A Literary Glimpse at Orthodox Jerusalem on the Eve of Sukkot, from an Overlooked Hebrew Author
Reb Aryeh’s etrog.